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Comcast ups Herrin to focus on customer experience
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BlackBerry posts $207 million loss
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DirecTV shareholders approve $48.5B sale to AT&T
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Bright House Networks' Babinski Cable-Tec champ
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Liberty Global's Fries: 'Thanks Netflix'
September 24, 2014 2:39 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsWhen Netflix dropped into Liberty Global's European footprint, Liberty CEO and president Mike Fries said it prodded his company to innovate and grow. Fries, who spoke with Comcast executive vice president and CTO during a keynote Expo session Wednesday morning, said the cable industry across the globe needed to collaborate and continue to scale in order to compete with hyper-giants such as Google and Netflix.
TWC's LaJoie offers up cable career advice
September 24, 2014 2:32 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsAfter 21 years in the cable industry, Time Warner Cable's Mike LaJoie has plenty of career advice for anyone in the cable industry. LaJoie, who is retiring at the end of the year, shared his thoughts during the opening general session "Tips from the top—from to cube to corner office" at Expo with long-time friend Yvette Kanouff.
Acheson wins SCTE Member of the Year
September 23, 2014 6:04 pm | by Craig Kuhl | News | CommentsA stunned Bob Acheson of San Bruno Cable TV in Sunnyvale, Calif. humbly accepted SCTE's prestigious Member of the Year Award during the organization's annual awards luncheon Tuesday. The sales and marketing exec, who began his cable career more than 20 years ago, has volunteered his time to advance many causes, both in and out of the cable industry during his work with SCTE and San Bruno Cable.
Cable's cloud forecast: hybrid model
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Alaska's GCI connects with T-Mobile on roaming
September 19, 2014 12:20 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsGCI, which is the largest triple play provider in Alaska, has inked an LTE roaming agreement with T-Mobile that provides its wireless customers access to an LTE network from Fairbanks, Alaska to Miami, Florida. While roaming agreements across the country are nothing new, GCI said the deal with T-Mobile was the nation's first LTE roaming partnership. Financial terms of the deal weren't released.
Cox names Wolfe SVP, Southwest region manager
September 19, 2014 12:17 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsCox Communications announced that it has named John Wolfe as senior vice president and Southwest region manager, which is Cox's largest region in the nation and includes Las Vegas, Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas. Wolfe, who has logged nearly 30 years in the cable industry, came over to the Southwest from Cox's Northeast region, where he served as the senior vice president and region manager.
NCTA kills off Cable Show, rebrands as INTX
September 18, 2014 12:42 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsFaced with dwindling attendance over the past few years and the continued evolution of Internet technologies, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) has pulled the plug on The Cable Show in favor of rebranding it as INTX. INTX, which stands for the Internet and Television Expo, will still be held on The Cable Show's original schedule of May 5-7 next year in Chicago, but with more of an Internet focus.
Virgin Media tunes up 1-Gig test with 'narrow trenching'
September 16, 2014 12:39 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsLiberty Global-owned Virgin Media, which is the largest cable operator in the UK, will fire up a small 1-Gigabit trial in the Cambridgeshire village of Papworth that will feature a new trenching technique for laying fiber. Virgin Media said it would lay fiber in Papworth by using "narrow-trenching," which it claims could reduce the cost of the network roll out by 33 percent.
CableLabs, SCTE further align on energy initiatives
September 10, 2014 11:49 am | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsThe Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) and CableLabs announced today that they would collaborate more closely on improving energy management issues for the cable industry, including strategies and innovations designed to reduce energy consumption and costs in facilities, plants, and fleet, as well as in the home.
SCTE bolsters international presence
September 8, 2014 12:37 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsThe Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has broadened its reach abroad with the recent addition of Liberty Global to SCTE's Corporate Alliance Program (CAP) as well as the formation of an international-based training program. The training and certfication program is called the International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE), which will serve as an international gateway to the SCTE's library of resources.
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SpinCo recast as GreatLand Connections
September 3, 2014 3:52 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsCharter Communications and Comcast announced they were ditching the name SpinCo for the emerging cable company that will be spun off once the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger and Charter/Comcast transactions are completed. The new name is GreatLand Connections Inc.,which drew upon the company's Midwest and Southeast footprint that was formely operated by Comcast.
Charter inks data warehouse deal with Sense Corp
September 3, 2014 11:52 am | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsCharter Communications announced it has signed a deal with management and technology consulting firm Sense Corp to create its next-generation enterprise data warehouse. Under the terms of the deal, St. Louis-based Sense Corp will serve as Charter's exclusive vendor for its business intelligence initiative, which Charter said would include integrating new subscribers by early next year.
AT&T files suit against Cox for patent infringement
September 2, 2014 12:15 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsOn Friday AT&T filed a patent lawsuit against Cox Communications alleging that the cable operator and over 30 of its regional systems had infringed on eight of its patents. The patents were related to DVRs and set-top boxes as well as managing VoIP and data services.
Telefonica ups bid to create Brazil's top operator
August 28, 2014 10:31 am | by Associated Press | News | CommentsSpain's telecommunications company Telefonica has raised its offer to buy Brazilian operator Global Village Telecom, or GVT, from French media conglomerate Vivendi to 7.45 billion euros ($9.82 billion) from 6.7 billion euros previously. Telefonica S.A. said in a statement Thursday the offer includes 4.66 billion in cash and 12 percent of the share capital in the new company.
Cox, Verizon shine in J.D. Power business voice study
August 27, 2014 12:35 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsCox Communications and Verizon stood out for their wireline services in the recently released J.D. Power 2014 U.S. Business Study. Cox Communications was first in the large enterprise business category for overall customer satisfaction index scores while Verizon placed second.
WOW! Business doubles up service delivery team to serve commercial customers
August 27, 2014 12:31 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsWOW! Business announced this morning that it had streamlined and expanded its business service delivery team to better serve small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), enterprise and wholesale communications customers across its 19 markets. WOW Business' 60-member service delivery team has doubled since the same time frame a year ago, and recently moved into a national service delivery center in Huntsville, Ala.
Charter Spectrum takes flight in more SoCal communities
August 25, 2014 12:01 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsFollowing a recent conversion to all digital, Charter Communications has launched its Charter Spectrum brand in more communities in Southern California. The new digital services included a free speed upgrade from up to 30 Mbps on the downstream to 60 Mbps for most of the MSO's subscribers in the area.
Cisco to lay off up to 6,000 workers
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That was the inspiration for this banner project. I used 2 different sweaters that were accidently shrunk (thanks honey!) and some vintage book and ledger pages, as well as small scrap pieces of fabric that weren't big enough for other projects. I had already used most of the argyle sweater for a pillow, so I had to be pretty creative to figure out a way to use the skinny strips that were left.
1. For the letter "S": Use the Rotary Trimmer and Cutting Mat to trim a 5.5 inch x 5.5 inch square from a sweater sleeve with ribbing. Then handcut the letter "s" using the Pinking Shears. Handstitch the "s" to the square. Then use the Apron Lace Border Punch on a strip of kraft cardstock about 1.5 inch. Then prepoke holes to spell "happy" and handstitch with black embroidery floss. Use wet adhesive to adhere stitched strip to background.
2. For the letter "P": Trim a piece of chipboard 5.5 inch x 5.5 inch using Fiskars Craft Knife and metal edge ruler on Cutting Mat. Paint a 5.5 inchx5.5 inch piece of vintage ledger paper (I usually paint a whole page and then trim it down to the size I need, then I have scraps to use for other projects) Set aside to dry. Handcut letter "P" and scrap of cotton fabric for center of "P". When paint is dry, adhere painted ledger piece to chipboard, and adhere "P" and center fabric to painted paper. Take long torn strip of cotton fabric and tie a knot around the piece.
3. For the letter "r": Use Rotary Trimmer and Cutting Mat to trim a 5.5 inch x 5.5 inch piece of fuschia sweater. Then handtrim an "r" from sweater (same sweater as background for "S"). Handstitch "r" to background with black embroidery floss. Use Butterfly Squeeze Punch on painted ledger paper and adhere to the background.
4. For letter "i": Trim a piece of chipboard to 3.5 inch x 5.5 inch using Craft Knife, then trim a piece of vintage book page the same size. Adhere to chipboard. Then handcut the bottom of the letter "I" from scrap Cosmo Cricket pattern paper and ink edges. Use Large Seal of Approval Squeeze Punch for dot of "I") Ink edges and adhere "I" to background.
5. For the letter "n": Trim a scrap piece of an old quilt to 5.5 inch x 5.5 inch Then use Pinking Shears to trim 3 sides leaving the top side a straight edge. Handcut the letter "n" from fuschia. Handstitch letter "n" to background using black embroidery floss.
6. For the letter "g": Trim 3 – 2 inch x 5.5 inch strips of cream and argyle sweater and stitch long side together to create one 5.5 inch x 5.5 inch inch background piece. Handcut letter "g" from scrap cotton fabric and handstitch to background using pink embroidery floss. Stitch vintage tassel trim to bottom of background to "finish"the bottom edge.
7. To put the banner together, simply stitch each letter to a 40 inch long piece of pink ribbon leaving about 1.5 inch between each letter.
Scrap of kraft cardstock (letter "S")
2 old sweaters (letters "S" and "g")
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Pink Embroidery Floss (letter "g")
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2 inch x2 inch scrap of fabric (for center of letter "P")
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Tourism organisations from across the island of Ireland took part in a tourism trade mission to China last week. The four-day trade mission, organised by Tourism Ireland's China office, took in the cities of Shanghai and Beijing and involved a series of B2B workshops, networking events and media interviews for the participating Irish companies.
Over the four days, face-to-face meetings were conducted with more than 60 Chinese decision-makers – including leading travel agents and tour operators – to encourage them to include Ireland in their future holiday programmes and to recommend it as a destination of choice for their clients. The trade mission provided a very useful platform for the participating tourism companies from Ireland to showcase their product to the travel agents, who collectively produce more than 80% of Ireland's tourism business from China. During their time in Shanghai and Beijing, the Irish companies were also interviewed by a number of influential Chinese travel writers.
Commenting on the longer-term potential of new and developing markets such as China for tourism to the island of Ireland, Susan Li, Tourism Ireland China, said: "The majority of Ireland's overseas visitors are from the core markets of Great Britain, Mainland Europe and North America, and while this will continue, it is important that we expand our focus beyond these markets and look to the long-term opportunities presented by emerging tourism markets in Asia like China. The World Tourism Organisation forecasts that the Asia-Pacific region will be one of the fastest growing outbound regions for travel, expanding by +6.5% on average over the next 15 years. Trade missions such as this provide a good opportunity for our Irish partners to develop their business links and enhance their relationships with key decision-makers, helping to grow their tourism business from China.
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Tourism organisations from across the island of Ireland in Beijing, during Tourism Ireland's 2011 tourism trade mission to China, with Susan Li, Tourism Ireland China (front row, fourth from left) and Jim Paul, Tourism Ireland's head of Australia and developing markets (back row, right).
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Single-mode waveguide optical isolator based on direction-dependent cutoff frequency
Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 20, pp. 16202-16208 (2008)
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A single-mode-waveguide optical isolator based on propagation direction dependent cut-off frequency is proposed. The isolation bandwidth is the difference between the cut-off frequencies of the lowest forward and backward propagating modes. Perturbation theory is used for analyzing the correlation between the material distribution and the bandwidth. The mode profile determines an appropriate distribution of non-reciprocal materials.
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(130.3120) Integrated optics : Integrated optics devices
(230.3240) Optical devices : Isolators
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Original Manuscript: July 11, 2008
Revised Manuscript: September 15, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: September 22, 2008
Published: September 26, 2008
Lingling Tang, Samuel M. Drezdzon, and Tomoyuki Yoshie, "Single-mode waveguide optical isolator based on direction-dependent cutoff frequency," Opt. Express 16, 16202-16208 (2008)
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He is my grandfather and need to merge him with the one I list
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Need to merge as one and same not a brother of. Sent collaboration request to Susan Johnstone
Edward, I can fix some of the merging
By the time I got back to it, Edward was already merged. :-) I started the merge on a couple others, but since it's in your family group, you should be able to get the rest now.
No, he is not in my family group, I was trying to help your merge through
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The common housefly is not an animal, but an insect. It is an arthropod, a classification of insect.
Arthropods are animals with exoskeletons (external skeletons), segmented bodies, and jointed legs.
The fly's "class" is "Insecta." An insect is defined as...
...any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax and abdomen) and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
Based on this definition, the fly is an insect. It has three main body parts: the head (with two "compound eyes" and three "simple" eyes); the thorax, which governs flight; and, the abdomen, used for digestion and reproduction.
The fly is also an insect because an actual fly has a pair of wings (hence its "order," Diptera, which means "two-winged). The fly also has three pairs of legs: one pair is located at the front of the body, facing forward; the next pair is found—one on either side of the body, at the middle; and, the third pair are located toward the back, facing backward.
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For such a small insect—that lives at most a week and a half during the warmest summer months—the fly is responsible for spreading deadly diseases, which far outweighs the benefits it offers to the environment in breaking down dead animals.
A fly is an insect because it has a single pair of metathoracic wings that are used for flight. This is what distinguishes the fly as a "true" fly (as opposed to a butterfly, which does not have the metathoracic wings). Flies also are classified in the order Diptera, with a literal translation meaning "two wings". Also, a fly does not have a backbone (it has an exoskeleton on the outside of its body), which is a characteristic of insects. All insects also hatch from eggs and have six legs/two antennae.
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Here are the relationships we're watching:
Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) and Rebekah (Claire Holt), though resistant to one another at the start of the episode, end on a high note. Rebekah stepped in and protected Hayley multiple times. She was constantly saying things like: don't hurt her, she's pregnant and that's no way to treat a pregnant lady (after ripping out some hearts, of course).
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At the end of the episode, Hayley thanks Rebekah, and Rebekah tells her the girls have to stick together. We're guessing the two will face some bickering. They're both not very nice most of the time, but they'll find common ground to respect one another. The ties that bind them as a family might just make them the perfect BFFs.
Marcel and Klaus (Joseph Morgan) didn't used to be friends. We find out this episode that Klaus raised Marcel as a son. When Marcel was old enough, he and Rebekah fell in love, but Klaus told Marcel he wouldn't make him a vampire unless he left Rebekah. Marcel chose being a vampire.
As if that wasn't hurtful enough, when New Orleans burned and the originals fled, they thought Marcel was dead. He wasn't. Instead, he took everything that belonged to the originals in New Orleans and made it his.
Estranged is putting their relationship lightly.
This one surprised us.
Marcel's got a thing for the oblivious human girl in town named Camille (aka Cami). We thought it would be Klaus to fall for the blonde, for sure!
Then Rebekah comes into town and makes things even more complicated, of course. She still has feelings for Marcel, despite the bad blood between them. Marcel doesn't share the sentiment outright, but we're sensing the sexual tension isn't just one-sided.
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Elijah and Hayley had an obvious connection before he got staked. She trusts him more than anyone in New Orleans. Hopefully, he'll come back soon, and we can see where the two will end up.
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The witches seem to be this outside force, driving more of the dramatic action and suspense than present as characters. Sophie acts as the name to represent this force, but will she be a bigger part of the story throughout the season? Or continue to live behind the scenes most of the time?
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You know, that was a brilliant way of executing events of Kurugaya's route with the limited amount of episodes they have. As a Kurugaya route fan (She was my favorite heroine route in the game), I am impressed.
And have I mentioned how much better Rin is compared to the VN. Like, it's pretty staggering how much better a character she is. |
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Well, the plot thickens. Finally.
I enjoyed the episode, it's one of the funniest so far for the most part, though I have to say the romance stuff felt rather sudden and there is not nearly enough development between Riki and Yuiko to make it believable for me. Poor Rin. I do hope her turn will come. Also, as someone unlearned in the art of moonrunes, I have to say the whole Loli (21) thing went over my head completely. ;_; |
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Kurugaya's always been my favorite heroine too, and though I've seen quite a few people complaining, I think her route's been wonderful so far! The romance was a little sudden, but that can't be helped with three episodes per girl, I suppose. I can still understand why, considering how he saw this new side of his teammate, and with the way she flirts with him~.
Bro hang out time was great, as always--they're a bunch of idiots, but that's what makes them so great, and poor Rin got jealous.~ Gonna' have to agree with you again, MCAL, when you say that Rin's a lot better character in the anime! I think her development near the beginning (what with her shyness and all) could have been handled better, but she's already a lot better than her game counterpart.
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it was a really enjoyable episode, Kyosuke's imagination always suprise me, the (21) came out of nowhere for me, Kengo reaction to the word love was hilarious and the firework scene was beautiful.
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Overall despite the fact that I felt some pacing and scene placements problems in this episode, it was pretty enjoyable to watch. I wish they'd expand more on the Loli Loli Hunters and Kurugaya though...
Rin's lonely firework scene was really a nice touch to the episode. That makes me just more impatient for her turn.
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There were no Love love hunter.......I feel like I was just being robbed >.>
Anyway,put aside the next to zero relationship build up,the pacing,music placement and whatever.Making Rin look all sad/jealous in this ep is the worst thing they could ever do to Kurugaya. For me,it should be Kurugaya that people feel sad about after watching this. Annnnd whoever got the (21)th post in this thread is a lolicon. |
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Solid episode, my favorite so far. Seriously, my hope is renewed with this second season, the contrast is so enormous with the first one, that is almost as if I were watching another story. It really deserves to be called the ~After Story~ of LB!
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In short, you rather enjoyed Yuiko's arc compared to the first season.
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These 2 aside, the most important part is the script, and it is a tad too early to tell if it will be consistent (first season was helluva inconsistent in term of narration for the heroines arcs).
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I refer, in general, the ostensible improvement in animation quality, some little details here and there, and the original influence that works really fine with that love triangle between Rin - Kurugaya - Riki. I'm really feeling a contrast between the first season, and the real thing now. Well played JC staff.
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I for one enjoyed this arc because it has a far stronger connection to the main plot than the ones in the first season, not actually because of Yuiko. Now granted, of course, I have not played the Novel and thus would not know if the time thing happened at the same time her arc was going on. |
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Good episode! There was some nice character development and the plot is moving along nicely as well. Also, am I seeing this right? Signs of romance in the Little Busters anime?
I really like the way they're handling Kurugaya's route. It's my second favourite route of the VN and I was wondering how they were going to handle her route, but I have to say that I'm pretty impressed so far. They're even using the romantic aspects of her route in an original way. Because of all this talking about love, it looks like both Riki and Rin are starting to realize that they have some kind of feelings for each other (consciously or unconsciously) as well. Quote:
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"Hey let's have Riki show no romantic interest in any of the girls.
Hey let's hint that Riki might have a thing for Rin." Biased bullshit >_> Also, no Love Love Hunters...I feel cheated.
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DALLAS - Nancy Brinker, the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, announced Wednesday she'll step down as the charity's CEO. Brinker broke the news to Komen affiliates across the country on a conference call Wednesday, including the affiliate in Fort Worth.
But she never mentioned the Planned Parenthood controversy. That didn't stop the public perception that her resignation is the latest fallout from it.
Roxanne Martinez is a breast cancer survivor and a Komen volunteer. Last year, a Komen grant helped pay for her chemotherapy and other medications.
Now Martinez is concerned about how Brinker's resignation will effect the charity.
I really hope that if people view it as a shakeup, that they do realize there are still fundraising dollars that are going to help their local communities and woman like myself, Martinez said.
Participation in Race for the Cure events fell sharply after Komen decided to cut funding to Planned Parenthood clinics.
Also falling? Its brand. It had been ranked No. 2 among non-profits in a Harris Interactive survey, but fell 54 spots.
That's what worries Fort Worth Komen Director Ann Greenhill. Public perception could impact donations, which fund research and mammograms.
There's been some damage to our brand recently, Greenhill said. But I honestly feel like we're moving past that. I feel like we're getting beyond that. I think it will take a while to restore to get back to where we are.
Even though she resigned as CEO, Brinker will still be very involved with the charity. Her new role will focus on fund raising, as chair of the Komen Board Executive Committee.
My instinct is no, we're not going to be impacted, because Nancy's moving into a different role, Greenhill said. I really don't think that's going to hurt us.
Komen volunteers say they're anxious to turn their focus back to the charity's mission: helping woman.
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The size of the budget touched R1, 02, 447 lakh crore, making it the biggest in the states' history.
While presenting the state budget for the fiscal 2013-14, the finance minister has been so calculative in offering sops and finding means to make up for the consequent loss of revenue that he actually ended up saying: "Tax relief proposed in the budget would lead to revenue loss of R170 crore, but extra tax imposed would accrue as much revenue."
Raghavji reiterated the chief minister's oft-repeated promise of 24 hour power supply to all villages and allocated R3,000 crore to that end.
Other than the gas cylinder, which shall now cost R20 less, there is nothing much for common consumers to rejoice - unless you are addicted to namkeen or candies, or suffer from breathing problems ( oxygen cylinder is cheaper). To the dismay of industry, there was no VAT relief on diesel either.
Raghavji's tenth budget ensures a steady flow of additional revenue to the government coffers from sale of liquor and purchase tax on paddy procurement. However, the purchase tax would not be borne by the farmer but by the procuring agency, Food Corporation of India (FCI) - a politically deft manoeuvre in an election year.
Presenting a rosy picture of the state's economy in an election year, Raghavji said gross domestic product of the state has risen four-fold in the past one decade and per capita income three-fold. Rate of average economic growth has also been about 10%, he added.
This is the first time that the size of the state budget has gone beyond Rs. one lakh crore mark, he said in his speech. The budget is again revenue surplus with revenue expenditure during the fiscal expected to be Rs. 65,208 crore as against revenue receipts of Rs. 71,728 crore.
Fiscal deficit this year is likely to be Rs. 10,435 crore, which is only 2.9% of the gross domestic product.
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The Palace of Culture and Science (Polish: Pałac Kultury i Nauki, also abbreviated PKiN) in Warsaw is the tallest building in Poland. Construction started in 1952 and lasted until 1955 and was a gift from the Soviet Union to the people of Poland. The 231 metre-tall building currently serves as an exhibition hall and office complex and as a radio and television broadcasting centre, also hosting cinemas, theatres, museums, and conference hall for up to 3,000 people.
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Over the past year, we've provided periodic updates on how the industry has operated in a post-analog world and a number of lessons have been learned. Chief among them is the issue of public education. Gary Sgrignoli, a DTV transmission consultant with Meintel, Sgrignoli and Wallace has been on the front lines of the DTV follow up, working with the FCC and making house calls to private homes in an effort to help consumers cope with the new DTV paradigm. All too often, the problems were simply solved by obtaining the right antenna and correct antenna placement.
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MSS has been carrying out multibeam bathymetry and habitat surveys in order to contribute to planning for the emerging wave and tidal energy industries. Such information is vital for assessment of site suitability for tidal energy devices and conservation interests. Many of the areas of greatest interest had not been surveyed using multibeam before. Currently, MSS has a Reson Seabat 7125-B multibeam echosounder on board their research vessel the FRV Scotia. They also take video and digital still images using a towed camera in order to ground truth the backscatter data and identify the habitats and species present.
MSS is currently post-processing 260 km2 of data from the southwest of Islay, which harbours tides in excess of 4 m/s and is of great interest to the tidal energy industry. The multibeam survey revealed some dramatic scenery; the seabed shelves steeply south of the Rhinns of Islay from 40 to 80 metres coincidental with fracturing associated with the Great Glen Fault and to the north of the fault there are sites containing exposed rocky reef communities characteristic of strong tidal streams. Large examples of the elephant's ear sponge (Pachymatisma Johnstonia) were found, as well as walls of the soft coral, dead man's fingers (Alcyonium Digitatum) and anemones such as the jewel anemone (Corynactis Viridis and Sagartia).
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The determination of activation energy from linear heating rate experiments: a comparison of the accuracy of isoconversion methods
Starink, M.J. (2003) The determination of activation energy from linear heating rate experiments: a comparison of the accuracy of isoconversion methods. Thermochimica Acta, 404, 163-176. (doi:10.1016/S0040-6031(03)00144-8).
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Model-free isoconversion methods are the most reliable methods for the calculation of activation energies of thermally activated reactions. A large number of these isoconversion methods have been proposed in the literature. A classification of these methods is proposed. Type A methods such as Friedman methods make no mathematical approximations, and Type B methods, such as the generalised Kissinger equation, apply a range of approximations for the temperature integral. The accuracy of these methods is investigated, by deriving expressions for the main sources of error which includes the inaccuracy in reaction rate measurement, approximations for the temperature integral and inaccuracies in determination of temperature for equivalent fraction transformed. Both highly inaccurate and highly accurate Type B methods are identified. In cases where some uncertainty over baselines of the thermal analysis data exists or where accuracy of determination of transformation rates is limited, type B methods will often be more accurate than type A methods.
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Additional Information: | The paper derives the method for calculation of activation energy from experiments at constant heating rate known as the Starink or Type B-1.92 method in which the key equation relates the heating rate, HR, the characteristic temperature, T, and the activation energy, E, through ln(HR/T^1.92) = -1.0008 E/RT + C . The method is recognized by the ICTAC kinetics committee as the most accurate in its group, and is widely used to analyse the activation energy of reactions in thermal analysis. |
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Keywords: | DSC, thermal analysis, linear heating, precipitation, modelling, thermal activation, polymers, metals, alloys, diffusion, calorimetry, reaction rate, Avrami, JMA, crystallisation, amorphous |
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Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2005 |
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